There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. Summary: Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve-old enough to do lots of things.even go downtown on their own. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else.Įver since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. They learn that new Americans are sometimes the best Americans. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves.
After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up-exciting things are bound to happen. Maud once stated that the three couldn’t have been closer if they’d been sisters.Summary: Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. Maud, Bick, and Midge became lifelong friends. Tib’s character was based on another playmate, Marjorie (Midge) Gerlach, who lived nearby in a large house designed by her architect father. Among its many children was a girl Maud’s age, Frances, nicknamed Bick, who was to be Maud’s best friend and the model for Tacy Kelly. Shortly before Maud’s fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center. The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town’s many hills. Maud’s birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato’s center business district. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota.
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